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Meet the $400 million, 42-mile track that moves sand across West Texas
West Texas is so expansive that amid all the oil wells, in between towns and across roadways, there exists room for a 40-plus-mile-spanning conveyor belt whose function is to move sand from one ...
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This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas
KERMIT, Texas – It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. Atlas ...